University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 4, 1978
Consumer affairs gets reprieve
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The Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association received enough money from the Comprehensive Employment Training Act to pay two salaries, enabling the community office to remain open, association officials said yesterday.
Garnet Wrigley, of the community office, said the contracts of the two workers employed under CETA had been canceled in September, but were renewed yesterday for October. The layoff of the two workers
D.C. faces teacher strike
WASHINGTON (AP)—The nation's capital, which was paralyzed by a transit strike in July, faces a possible walkout by its public school teachers today.
A strike has been threatened by teachers unless the District of Columbia Board of Education yields to their demands to allow teachers to attend classes away from classes to attend contract talks.
The board rejected the demand on
would have left only one worker in the community office.
However, with no guarantee of funds to pay the workers' salaries after October, efforts will continue to merge the association's campus office with the community office at 901 Kentucky St., Judy Kroeger, director of the association said.
Monday, offering instead to provide 12 days with pay for teachers who are involved in teaching.
Members of the Washington Teachers Union, which represents 85 percent of the 6,500 teachers in the city, currently are working without a contract. The old pact expired in January but was extended to July by mutual consent.
"It could be the end of the community"
"October if more funds are not allocated."
A letter has been sent to the Student Senate, which has allocated 7,588 to the campus office for fiscal 1979, asking that it furnish the appropriate budget to a sundown office, Kroeger said.
If the offices were to merge, Kroger said, the campus office would remain open about 20 hours a week and would serve as an in-house resource. Community office would handle all complaints.
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Alpha Epsilon Pi
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Fri., Oct. 6th
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All pledges and little sisters are welcome!
Higher Education, part of the american Council on Education, will be the keynote speaker.
There will be workshops on such topics as: helping men cope with the women's movement, assertiveness and the management, assertiveness and the psychology of women. There also will be discussions on women and; sexual harassment in the active action, politics, the law, retirement, two-bed families and stereotypes.
Costs to the steering committee for the convention are estimated at $10,000.
STEREO REPAIR
The steering committee requested $1,450 from Student Senate this week. It is also applying for federal grants and planning fund-raising drives.
SIGMA NU and THE WHEEL PRESENT
1978
DAISY MAE
LOOK ALIKE CONTEST
Oct. 7, 1978
AT THE
SIGMA NU HOUSE
4:00 P.M.
Welcome Judges:
Welcome Judges:
Hill, Wesley, and Wooden
Ladies Night
Tues. and Thurs. Nights
Women preparing for convention
Danya Eubanks, chairman of the steering committee, said recently that between 150 and 300 people from across the world would be at KU for the convention.
Berlin said involvement with a national convention would be good experience for students interested in business, politics, economics, lobbying or women's rights.
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locks
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t-shirts
back packs
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Emily Taylor, former KU dean of women and current director of Women in
A special meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women to organize community workshops will be held in Intercultural Association of Women Students will be at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the
Possibilities for speakers at the convention include Barbara Jordan, Renalymyr McFarlane, Ruth Wagner, Stella Steinem, Midge Costanza, Alan Atda, Caroll Burnett and Robert David.
The national convention of IAWs, a national women's lobbying group, will be held March 28-31 at the University of Kansas.
mon-fri 12-6 sat 12-5 842-3131
KU's chapter of LAWS was selected to host this year's convention by delegates last March at a convention in Tucalcoa, Ala.
Margaret Berlin, publicity chairman for the steering committee, said yesterday the meeting's purpose was to get widespread involvement of students.
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CALL 842-1826
Hillel Presents
a
Blintze Brunch
Sun. Oct. 8 12:30 p.m.
$1.00 members
$2.00 non-members
Lawrence J.C.C. Hillel Elections
917 Highland Drive will follow brunch
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